π️Lonny's War Update- October 723, 2023 - September 28, 2025 π️
π️Day 723 that 48 of our hostages are still in Hamas captivityπ️
At protest, ex-hostage says she’s unsure if captives’ return is Israel’s top priority
Doron Steinbrecher, who was released from Hamas captivity in January as part of the most recent Gaza ceasefire, says she doesn’t know if she still believes that the hostages’ return is Israel’s top priority.
“I tried to believe it when my tunnel was bombed and I was smuggled into the streets of Gaza, I tried to believe it when I heard military choppers flying overhead,” she says to thousands of people at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, where rallygoers have unfurled a large poster addressed to US President Donald Trump reading, “All 48 hostages home now.”
In captivity, she says, “You want to believe it when you hear the prime minister address you directly via loudspeakers” — a reference to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial move during his UN speech on Friday to air his speech via speakers mounted on trucks in and around Gaza — and “you want to believe it when you hear Trump’s threats and promises again and again. You want to believe it when you hear that [White House Mideast envoy Steve] Witkoff is optimistic.”
“You hold on to everything to believe — every date, every memory, every occasion, you mark anything you can so you don’t give up,” she says, days after Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
“But I don’t know if they still believe — I don’t know if I still believe — that everything is being done,” she says. “But I have no choice but to believe they’ll come back,” she adds. “We have no choice, and neither do they.”
Amid the current operation to take over Gaza City, “it’s unclear that there will be any living hostages left, unclear that it will be possible to locate the dead,” she says. “Soldiers will keep getting killed and injured mentally and physically… [and] the country will keep being at war and not begin its rehabilitation.”
“We’ve gone through more and more days, holidays and special occasions, and the hostages haven’t returned. That doesn’t bother decision-makers?” she asks. “I want to believe that everything is being done to bring them home, that it’s the top priority.”
“If there is an opportunity” for a hostage-ceasefire deal now, she says, “don’t miss out on that hope. Save them, us.”
Jerusalem protest sets out from Old City, demanding hostage deal and end to war
Hundreds of protesters set out from the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City, demanding a hostage deal and end to the war.
Marching along the Old City walls, demonstrators chant, “There is no atonement for a government that forsakes.”
The protesters are jeered by several passersby, mostly Jews in Orthodox garb, as they continue toward the prime minister’s residence.
Before protesters start marching, an organizer with the Israeli Reform movement leads the crowd in a Havdalah ceremony to conclude Shabbat.
She notes that the Jews worldwide just celebrated Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, earlier this week, and will mark Yom Kippur on Wednesday night and Thursday.
“Here we are a moment before Yom Kippur, she says. “But we haven’t forgotten for a second that this war is ongoing.”
She goes on to assert that the new year cannot truly begin “until the hostages return and the war comes to an end.”
Netanyahu bracing for ‘painful concessions’ under US Gaza plan — report
Ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with United States President Donald Trump on Monday, the premier and his team are expecting that Israel will have to make “painful and significant” concessions under the American plan to end the war in Gaza, reports Channel 12, without citing sources.
These include concessions that would “contradict Israel’s stated policy and the decisions taken by the cabinet in recent weeks,” particularly regarding the plan’s call for the gradual expansion of Palestinian Authority involvement in postwar Gaza, according to the network.
The report adds that the US is currently exerting “heavy pressure” on Qatar to push Hamas to agree to the details of Trump’s plan in the coming days, in an effort to shift the diplomatic demands entirely onto Netanyahu and Israel
Brother of slain captive slams PM’s ’empty’ UN speech, blames him for Oct. 7 ‘holocaust’
Dani Elgarat, the remains of whose brother Itzik Elgarat were returned by Hamas during a ceasefire earlier this year, accuses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of abandoning the hostages and seeking to take over the Shin Bet security service.
He also accuses the prime minister of being responsible for a “holocaust” by allowing the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack.
Speaking to some 300 people at the Begin Road entrance to the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, in the first anti-government protest there in several weeks, Elgarat parodies the section of Netanyahu’s Friday speech to the United Nations General Assembly in which he posed multiple-choice questions to his viewers.
“What is Bibi responsible for?” asks Elgarat, using the premier’s nickname. “For the October 7 holocaust? For the deaths in captivity of 42 hostages? For the abandonment of the hostages in Gaza? For the abandonment of the soldiers in a political war? Or all of the above?”
As in Netanyahu’s speech, where the premier sought to show that Iran and its proxies sought to kill Westerners, Elgarat says the answer to his question is “all of the above.”
“But the worst sin of all is Netanyahu’s way of abusing the hostage families, and now, the hostages themselves,” he says. He slammed Netanyahu’s order to the military to broadcast his speech via loudspeakers in and around Gaza so that the premier, according to his remarks at the UN, could speak directly to the hostages.
“Instead of embracing and listening [to the hostage families], he operates a network of loudspeakers against the captives and their families, he spreads lies, he spreads lies, he tries to call their loyalty into question and sap their strength,” says Elgarat. “And why? Only because they remind him that he is responsible. And that is a moral low point that only Netanyahu could descend to.”
“In addition to that, there is the corruption that continues harming national security, and at the top of the list, the appointment of the Shin Bet head,” Maj. Gen. (res.) David Zini, Netanyahu’s nominee, whose candidacy was approved by a statutory committee on Thursday after a protracted legal battle.
“Netanyahu wants to take even the most sensitive body and turn it into a political pawn,” says Elgarat.
“We don’t need more empty speeches — we need strong, honest leadership,” says Elgarat, who is running in primary elections for a seat in Knesset as part of the left-wing Democrats party.
He castigates “a leadership that is willing to pay a political price to save the nation, bring back the hostages, undo the schism and return the Zionist dream to its rightful place.”
“The real Israel” does not belong to Netanyahu, he says. “It belongs to us, and we’ll establish it anew. We’re going to beat him.”
After the speech, the crowd chants, “a political war — a betrayal of Israel,” and “Bibi and Sinwar — money from Qatar,” a reference to the Qatari cash that flowed to Gaza and Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s chief there, for years with Netanyahu’s approval, and to allegations that Netanyahu’s aides worked for Qatar while in his employ.
Einav Zangauker: If Netanyahu returns from US without hostage deal, ‘indescribable hell’ awaits
Einav Zanguker, whose son Matan is held hostage in Gaza, threatens to intensify demonstrations for a deal to end the war and return the captives if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not come back from his trip to the United States with an agreement.
“In contrast to the campaign of lies by the angel of sabotage, Netanyahu, there are 48 families whose loved ones are in captivity, and everyone needs to return, not just those he addressed,” Zangauker says at a weekly press conference in Tel Aviv, accusing the prime minister of torpedoing every chance for a deal in the past two years.
“If you sabotage another agreement, we will haunt you until the end of time,” she says. “I am looking at you in the eyes, Netanyahu. If you come back without an agreement, an indescribable hell is waiting for you here. The demonstrations and the strikes in recent weeks will look like child’s play.”
Hostage’s father says Netanyahu ignoring families in US, but Trump officials engaged
Hagai Angrest, the father of hostage Matan Angrest, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to engage with hostages’ family members who are in New York pushing for a deal to free those held in Gaza.
“He ignores us when we are outside his home in Jerusalem [and] he ignores us here,” Angrest tells Army Radio from the US. “He went to the [grave of] the Lubavitcher Rebbe, but all the places we are as well he has ignored us. That’s his choice. We are concerned with saving lives… not with ratings.”
In contrast, Angrest says, Trump administration officials have met with them to talk about efforts to reach a deal ending the war and bringing the hostages home.
“They are trying to do everything so this happens,” he says of a peace plan rolled out by US President Donald Trump in recent days. “They are working, they are doing everything; we believe in them, we are with them.”
As for the chances that a deal will be reached, Angrest is cautious, noting that they were promised an agreement the last time Netanyahu was in the US and got nothing.
“We are really hoping, but until we see progress, we don’t believe [it will happen],” he says.
He says hostages’ families will do everything in their power to force Netanyahu to agree to a deal, promising to be “the prime minister’s shadow” when he returns to Jerusalem.
“We’ll ramp up pressure. We will come back to Jerusalem in a big way, to more places in Jerusalem,” he says. “The prime minister knows that what we say, we do.”
Hamas operative who killed officer Arnon Zmora during Gaza hostage rescue op slain in airstrike
A Hamas operative who killed Israeli police officer Ch. Insp. Arnon Zmora, during a hostage rescue mission in the central Gaza Strip last summer, was killed in a recent airstrike in the Gaza Strip, the Shin Bet and IDF announce.
Muhammad Ahmad Yousef al-Jamal, a member of Hamas, was among those guarding hostages Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv, according to the IDF and Shin Bet.
On June 8, 2024, Israeli special forces from the Shin Bet and Israel Police’s elite Yamam unit raided an apartment belonging to Abdallah al-Jamal — his relative and a journalist — in Nuseirat and rescued the three hostages, in a mission later named Operation Arnon after the slain Yamam officer.
As the forces breached the building where the hostages were held, Muhammad al-Jamal shot Zmora fatally. Abdallah al-Jamal and other members of the al-Jamal family were killed during the raid, but not Muhammad.
Alongside al-Jamal, the recent Israeli Air Force strike also killed Sari Idris Muhammad al-Aqrab, a Hamas terrorist who invaded Israel during the October 7 onslaught and was considered “close” to al-Jamal, the Shin Bet says.
Gaza City mayor and other notables in Strip appeal to Trump for ceasefire
In a letter obtained by The Times of Israel, Gaza City Mayor Yahya al-Sarraj, together with Gazan business and academic leaders, appeals to US President Donald Trump to work toward a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas.
The signatories write in the letter to Trump, “You have the power to succeed where others failed, to stop the bloodshed, protect innocent lives and set the stage for a just and lasting peace.”
Trump recently formulated a 21-point plan to end the war and release the hostages held in Gaza by Hamas. He is due to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.
Al-Sarraj is affiliated with Hamas, as are all Gaza mayors. It is also unclear if all the signatories are currently located in the Strip, though al-Sarraj himself has been present there in recent months.
Israel is currently conducting a major offensive to conquer Gaza City.
Hamas-run ministry says Gaza death toll tops 66,000
The Hamas-controlled Gaza health ministry says the death toll from the war in Gaza has surpassed 66,000, after 79 people were killed in past 24 hours.
The ministry’s tally of 66,005 since October 7, 2023, cannot be confirmed and does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.
Israel said it hit some 140 targets from the air over the past day and deepened operational control in parts of Gaza City, where it has waged an intensified offensive for nearly two weeks.
Witnesses and medics say Israeli tanks deepened their incursions in the Sabra, Tel Al-Hawa, Sheikh Radwan and Al-Naser neighborhoods, closing in on the heart and the western areas of Gaza City. Hundreds of thousands of people remain in the city despite Israeli calls for all of the city’s million residents to leave.
Gaza City clans said to reject Israeli plan to set up anti-Hamas zones
Saudi daily Asharq Al-Awsat reports that the Shin Bet approached representatives of two large Gaza City clans that remained in the city about implementing a plan to divide the city into zones controlled by armed groups supported by Israel.
According to the report, citing security sources and contacts on the ground in Gaza, the Durmush and Bakr families rejected the offer, which would have required them to fight Hamas and pass intelligence to Israel.
The proposed scheme appears to be similar to a model implemented with armed groups carving out anti-Hamas enclaves in Gaza’s south that claim support from Israel.
A member of the Bakr family, who asked not to be named, confirmed the details to the paper.
According to the sources, the families rejected the offer on Friday; yesterday Israel struck several houses belonging to members of the families in Gaza City, killing about 36 people, it claims.
Palestinian reports: Palestinian woman, two foreigners injured in West Bank settler attack
Palestinian media reports that a 61-year-old Palestinian woman and two foreign volunteers were injured in an attack by Israeli settlers in the village of al-Fakheet in the South Hebron Hills in the southern West Bank.
According to the reports, the woman was evacuated to the nearby Abu Al-Hasn Government Hospital with bruises. It was also reported that settlers vandalized equipment in the village.
The Israel Defense Forces have not immediately responded to a request for comment on the incident.
**There is nothing more important than getting them home! NOTHING!**
“I’ve never met them,But I miss them. I’ve never met them,but I think of them every second. I’ve never met them,but they are my family. BRING THEM HOME NOW!!!”
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Smotrich demands Israeli sovereignty in parts of West Bank, freezing out of PA as part of Trump peace plan
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has laid out three key demands in relation to the Trump peace plan, Channel 12 reports.
The far-right minister reportedly insists there be no role for the Palestinian Authority in governing Gaza or the West Bank; that Hamas be completely dismantled and disarmed; and that Israel assert sovereignty over parts of the West Bank without recognizing a Palestinian state.
His remarks come as new details emerge about the latest American proposal for ending the war in Gaza. The 21-point plan, obtained by The Times of Israel, encourages Palestinians to remain in the Strip while creating a pathway toward a future Palestinian state. It also includes familiar elements from earlier initiatives, such as the release of all hostages within 48 hours and the removal of Hamas from power.
US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said Wednesday he expected a breakthrough related to Gaza in the coming days. Witkoff noted that Trump had presented his ideas during a meeting with Arab and Islamic countries on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly earlier this week.
Smotrich, who heads the Religious Zionism party, has long opposed Palestinian statehood and has pressed for extending Israeli sovereignty over parts of the West Bank and Gaza, where he has called for renewed Israeli settlement. link Smotrich and his extreme messianic right wing partners see the war as an opportunity, instead of a terrible thing that had to be done after October 7. They see the possibility of fulfilling their messianic agendas of expelling Palestinians first from Gaza and then the West Bank, annexing the West Bank to be followed by annexation of Gaza and building Jewish settlements everywhere in the West Bank and Gaza. They care nothing about international law because their messianism takes precedent over laws. They care nothing about international implications such as boycotts, embargoes, ending peace treaties, turning our allies into enemies, the destruction of the economy, reservists having to do hundreds of days of reserve duty, the lives of the hostages, the lives of the soldiers; none of that matters as long as they can reach their goals.
Trump has said very strongly and very publicly that he will not allow annexation of the West Bank. Smotrich and his ilk are demanding of Netanyahu to ignore Trump and go ahead with annexation, in full or in part. Netanyahu has abandoned and ignored all of the world leaders except for Trump. Trump is the one person in the world (other than his wife) that Netanyahu cannot say no to but that doesn't matter to Smotrich. He lives in a delusional world where Israel is an island and doesn't need any other country including the United States. So he and the other messianic crazies are willing to toss everything else away to achieve their dreams and extremist agendas. Until now, Netanyahu has allowed them to drive the government and direct the war because they had the power to bring down the government, which is the last thing that Netanyahu wants. There has been the question, if Netanyahu has to choose between Smotrich staying in the government and appeasing Trump, which would he choose. It still remains a question but I'm betting that he will go with Trump and do what Trump demands he do.- Revealed: US 21-point plan for ending Gaza war, creating pathway to Palestinian state
Witkoff proposal envisions all hostages released in first 48 hours, grants amnesty for peace-committing Hamas members, encourages Gazans to remain, sees US establish Israeli-Palestinian dialogueThe US proposal for ending the war in Gaza encourages Palestinians to remain in the Strip and provides for the creation of a pathway to a future Palestinian state, according to a copy of the plan obtained by The Times of Israel.
The 21-point document shared by the US with a handful of Arab and Muslim countries earlier this week on the United Nations General Assembly sidelines also contains clauses that have been staples in various proposals crafted by different stakeholders in recent months — from the release of all hostages to Hamas’s removal from power.
But the decision to explicitly encourage Palestinians to remain in Gaza caps off a major evolution for Washington on the issue, given that US President Donald Trump in February shocked much of the world with talk of the US taking over Gaza and permanently relocating its entire population of roughly two million people.
Those remarks gave significant tailwind to the idea among Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners and even among more moderate Israeli political figures who have since worked actively to “encourage the voluntary migration” of Gazans, albeit with no success to date.
Moreover, the proposal’s envisioning of a potential pathway to a future Palestinian state, after Gaza’s redevelopment has advanced and the Palestinian Authority’s reform has been completed, also appears to be a major departure from the Trump administration’s policy to date, given that it has avoided expressing backing for a two-state solution.
The plan obtained by The Times of Israel — and authenticated by two sources familiar with the matter — even sees the US establishing a dialogue with Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a “political horizon” for “peaceful coexistence.”
Smoke rises following an Israeli military strike in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, Sept. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
While those terms are major selling points for the Palestinians, the proposal, crafted largely by US special envoy Steve Witkoff — and poised to be fine-tuned in the coming days — also includes clauses that Israel has long demanded.Those include a commitment for Hamas to disarm, the demilitarization of Gaza and the establishment of a process to de-radicalize the population.
The exact sequencing for these steps isn’t specified, but it appears that they are intended to come into effect in parallel with the ending of the war.
Those requirements will likely make the proposal a difficult sell to Hamas, and the plan’s creation of a potential pathway to a future Palestinian state could well be a red line for Netanyahu, who has long campaigned on having prevented a two-state solution. The Israeli premier told the UN General Assembly on Friday: “Giving the Palestinians a state one mile from Jerusalem after October 7th is like giving Al-Qaeda a state one mile from New York City after September 11th. This is sheer madness. It’s insane, and we won’t do it… Israel will not allow you to shove a terror state down our throats.”
But Trump was optimistic on Friday about his chances for success, telling reporters earlier in the day that a deal may already be in place, before posting on Truth Social that “intense negotiations have been going on for four days and will continue for as long as necessary to get a successfully completed agreement.”
“All of the countries within the region are involved, Hamas is very much aware of these discussions, and Israel has been informed at all levels, including Bibi Netanyahu,” he added, referring to the premier by his nickname.
However, a source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel that the proposal has not yet been presented in full to Hamas.
The US plan is rather light on details, and subsequent negotiations will likely be necessary, even if the sides agree to the plan.
What are the 21 points?
The following are the contents of the plan, which have been paraphrased at the request of the sources who provided it.
1. Gaza will be a de-radicalized, terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors.
2. Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of its people.
3. If Israel and Hamas agree to the proposal, the war will immediately end, with the IDF halting all operations and gradually withdrawing from the Strip.
4. Within 48 hours of Israel publicly accepting the deal, all living and deceased hostages will be returned.
5. Once the hostages are returned, Israel will free several hundred Palestinian security prisoners serving life sentences and over 1,000 Gazans arrested since the start of the war, along with the bodies of several hundred Palestinians.
Protesters demonstrate against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and call for the release of hostages held in Gaza, at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, ahead of Netanyahu’s departure to the UN General Assembly in New York, September 24, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)6. Once the hostages are returned, Hamas members who commit to peaceful coexistence will be granted amnesty, while members who wish to leave the Strip will be granted safe passage to receiving countries.
7. Once this agreement is reached, aid will surge into the Strip at rates no lower than the benchmarks set in the January 2025 hostage deal, which included 600 trucks of aid per day, along with the rehabilitation of critical infrastructure and the entry of equipment for removing rubble.
8. Aid will be distributed — without interference from either side — by the United Nations and the Red Crescent, along with other international organizations not associated with either Israel or Hamas.
The text of this clause appears intentionally vague and seemingly leaves an opening for the continued operation of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, as it technically is an American organization, even if it was the brainchild of Israelis linked to the government and was crafted to fit the Israeli government’s prosecution of the war.
9. Gaza will be administered by a temporary, transitional government of Palestinian technocrats who will be responsible for providing day-to-day services for the people of the Strip. The committee will be supervised by a new international body established by the US in consultation with Arab and European partners. It will establish a framework for funding the redevelopment of Gaza until the Palestinian Authority has completed its reform program.
This is the US plan’s first mention of the Ramallah-based PA. Israel has ruled out the authority as a potential ruler of Gaza, thereby nixing what has become the key to recruiting Arab assistance in the post-war management of the Strip, given that the international community views unifying the West Bank and Gaza under a single, reformed governing body as essential for long-term stability and peace.
The apparent decision to reserve the PA’s role for an unspecified later date will likely be a difficult pill for Ramallah to swallow, but it also has limited leverage to bear in these discussions.
Point nine appears to borrow heavily from former UK prime minister Tony Blair’s plan for ending the war, which was first revealed by The Times of Israel earlier this month.
Blair and former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner have been working on the Gaza file for months, while advising Witkoff.
10. An economic plan will be created to rebuild Gaza through the convening of experts with experience in constructing modern Middle East cities and through the consideration of existing plans aimed at attracting investments and creating jobs.
11. An economic zone will be established, with reduced tariffs and access rates to be negotiated by participating countries.
Displaced Palestinians move with their belongings southwards on a road in the Nuseirat refugee camp area in the central Gaza Strip on September 18, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)12. No one will be forced to leave Gaza, but those who choose to leave will be allowed to return. Moreover, Gazans will be encouraged to remain in the Strip and offered an opportunity to build a better future there.
13. Hamas will have no role in Gaza’s governance whatsoever. There will be a commitment to destroy and stop building any offensive military infrastructure, including tunnels. Gaza’s new leaders will commit to peaceful coexistence with their neighbors.
14. A security guarantee will be provided by regional partners to ensure that Hamas and other Gaza factions comply with their obligations and that Gaza ceases to pose a threat to Israel or its own people.
15. The US will work with Arab and other international partners to develop a temporary international stabilization force that will immediately deploy in Gaza to oversee security in the Strip. The force will develop and train a Palestinian police force, which will serve as a long-term internal security body.
16. Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza, and the IDF will gradually hand over territory it currently occupies, as the replacement security forces establish control and stability in the Strip.
17. If Hamas delays or rejects this proposal, the above points will proceed in terror-free areas, which the IDF will gradually hand over to the international stabilization force.
This is the first mention of the possibility that the deal could be at least partially implemented, even if Hamas doesn’t agree.
18. Israel agrees not to carry out future strikes in Qatar. The US and the international community acknowledge Doha’s important mediating role in the Gaza conflict.
19. A process will be established to de-radicalize the population. This will include an interfaith dialogue aimed at changing mindsets and narratives in Israel and Gaza.
20. When Gaza’s redevelopment has been advanced and the PA reform program has been implemented, the conditions may be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian statehood, which is recognized as the aspiration of the Palestinian people.
The clause doesn’t provide details regarding the Palestinian reform program and is not definitive regarding when the pathway to statehood can be established.
21. The US will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful coexistence. link
Hostage czar says he asked Netanyahu to delay death penalty vote until he can discuss with cabinet
After the Knesset National Security Committee votes to advance a bill imposing the death penalty on terrorists for its first reading in the full plenum, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hostage point man says he requested from the premier that the bill not be brought for a vote before the cabinet discusses the matter, warning that the measure endangers the lives of hostages in Gaza.
“The mission is the return of the hostages — both the living and the fallen. I asked the prime minister that the issue being discussed today in the committee not be brought to the plenum before a thorough discussion is held in the cabinet, where I will be able to present the full picture and my own assessment. That’s how it shall be,” Gal Hirsch writes in a Hebrew-language post on X.
While Netanyahu does not have the authority to halt the vote – a decision that rests with Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana – Hirsch is likely hoping the premier will press Ohana to delay the bill being put on the Knesset agenda.
“This discussion does not help us. I came here today to express my position, to disagree with the assessment of the minister and the committee chair, and to request nonetheless that this discussion not take place,” Hirsch told the committee ahead of the vote.
Hirsch notably has not joined Netanyahu or the delegations of hostage families who traveled to the United States ahead of the UN General Assembly and Netanyahu’s meeting tomorrow with US President Donald Trump. link This bill was put forth by the convicted criminal Minister Ben Gvir's racist messianic party without discussion with Netanyahu. His purpose in pushing this bill forward at this time to two-fold: the first is his long time desire to have the death penalty instituted for Arab terrorist (not for Jewish terrorist; he, himself was convicted for belonging to and supporting a terror organization and spent his legal career defending Jewish terrorists), and the second and more important reason for it happening now is to scuttle the Trump plan for ending the war and returning all of the hostages. Ben Gvir, since the beginning of the war has been against any hostage deal and has been the major proponent for continuing the war ad infinitum. He cares nothing about the hostages' lives, nor the suffering of the hostage families and everyone else in Israel who support the hostages and their families. He has stated publicly that he is more than willing to sacrifice the hostages because his agenda is far more important: expulsion of all Palestinians by any means and full settlement of Gaza by Jews only.
We know for a fact based on reports by many of the returned hostages that even discussions like this in the Knesset cause additional suffering to the hostages in captivity. The captors increase the torture, decrease the already pitiful amount of food and water given to the hostages and make their overall captivity much harsher, if that can be imagined. None of this makes any difference to this outlier Ben Gvir. He knows that it can immediately cause major problems in the negotiations for the end of the war and that is his goal. He wants all negotiations to end to the war to go on.Shin Bet probing how it fudged Qatar strike — report
The Shin Bet security agency is investigating the apparent failure of this month’s strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar, Ynet news reports.
The attack carried out by Israeli Air Force fighter jets on a building in Doha on September 9 is not believed to have killed any of Hamas’s top leadership, who were the intended targets. The attack killed several lower-ranking members of the group, including bodyguards and a Qatari security officer
Unusually, the intelligence on the targets was provided by the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security agency, and not the Mossad, which is normally responsible for overseas operations. Ynet reports that the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate played a minor role in the strike.
According to the outlet, the Shin Bet is investigating the reliability of the information regarding the location of the Hamas officials, and its recommendation to use precision munitions that only hit part of the building. There have been unverified reports that the Hamas leaders were in another part of the building that was not badly hit in the strike.
There is no comment from the Shin Bet on the report. link The Mossad was not involved in the strike in Qatar because the Mossad chief was against the attack and refused to participate. He recognized the danger of the timing of the attack on the deal on the table for returning all the hostages and ending the war. It is important to remember that the Mossad Chief, together with the former Shin Bet chief had been the heads of the negotiating team for the release of the hostages. They had both strongly pushed for a deal the end the war which would bring home all the hostages and that went against Netanyahu's wishes to keep the war going even if it meant the hostages would die. That is the main reason that both of them were removed by Netanyahu from the negotiating team and were replaced by his closest adviser and yes man Dermer who has not brought home a single hostage in his 8 months in the position and has refused to talk to hostage families. The head of the Shin Bet was fired by Netanyahu and the person in command is an acting head. It apparently was easier for Netanyahu to push him onboard for this action in Qatar that temporarily killed the Trump proposal. It was a very unusual situation that the Shin Bet was providing the intelligence for an operation like this outside of Israel when it has always come under the purview of the Mossad which is the Israeli international spy organization while the Shin Bet is tasked with internal intelligence matters which include Gaza and the West Bank.
Nearly a third of reservist couples mulled splitting due to war strains, survey finds
Half of the spouses of reserve soldiers say their marital relationship was damaged as a result of their military service and 30 percent say they considered separation or divorce, the Central Bureau of Statistics says in its first report on the impact of reserve duty service on families since the outbreak of the war in Gaza nearly two years ago.
Of those married to reservists who served 50 days or fewer, only 36% reported harm to their relationship, the bureau says. That figure spiked to 57% for spouses of those who served 250 to 350 days.
The survey finds that 52% of the spouses reported a negative change in their children’s mental state following reserve service. For those whose spouses served 200-250 days, 63% reported a negative change in their children’s mental state.
Following reserve duty, 61% of the spouses of reserve soldiers say that they needed some kind of assistance. Of these, 55% needed psychological or emotional assistance, and 38% needed financial assistance. Spouses were more likely to seek psychological help the longer their partner served for.
According to the survey, 35% of the couples sought counseling once the reserve service was complete. link The costs of this war are far beyond the economic costs alone. It has been found that approximately 70% of the population is suffering from trauma due to October 7, the continuation of the war, the hostage situation, the continuous missile and drone strikes, reserve duty both for the reservists and the families, economic impacts to families and businesses and the list goes on. This study/survey is just first survey done regarding reservists family structure and certainly will not be the last. We can expect far more damaging reports to come in the future. And we cannot forget the other aspects of the impact on reservists' families, such as the growing suicides among reservists who have served in Gaza and the as so far unreported and under reported PTSD for which will see exponential growth once the war ends and for years to come. The impact of this war on Israeli society will be felt for many years and in ways that no one expected and can imagine. The problem will be exacerbated by the major deficiencies in Israel for Mental Health support and personnel. It was insufficient before the war began and has only gotten worse. The Ministry of Health is already allowing many people to provide psychological and social worker support who are not yet trained or licensed or have the necessary experience to do so, but with the severe lack of sufficient professionals, they are being pushed into this situation due to the circumstances. The government, instead of greatly increasing the budgets for the necessary mental health support has cut those budgets along with all other social budgets without caring and consideration of the major ramifications to the health of the population. Par for the course.
The Region and the WorldEgypt FM accuses Israel of ‘genocide,’ ‘wanton aggression’ in Mideast in UN speech
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty accuses Israel of “genocide” in Gaza and of pursuing a policy of “wanton aggression” in the Middle East in an address to the United Nations General Assembly.
Abdelatty, who has previously accused Israel of genocide, says that Jerusalem has an “extremist ideology” and says it is destabilizing the region and contravening the UN’s purpose.
“The continued Israeli occupation, the genocide transpiring today in the Gaza Strip, depriving the Palestinian people of their legitimate rights, most notably the right to establish its independent state… this hollows out any narrative of peace and security in the region,” he says. “Israel cannot be secure when others are not secure. The reg cannot see stability without an independent State of Palestine.
In a speech whose bulk focused on Israel, Abdelatty condemns Israel’s recent strike targeting Hamas leaders in Qatar and accuses Israel of violating the sovereignty of Syria and Lebanon, where the IDF has stationed troops in border zones. He also accuses Israel of pursuing a policy of “systemic starvation” in Gaza.
Israel has adamantly rejected the charge that it is committing genocide in Gaza and denies that there is widespread starvation in the Strip, saying that it takes measures to avoid civilian casualties and to facilitate the flow of aid.
Abdelatty, whose country has acted as a mediator in ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas, praises US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza, which includes the release of all Israeli hostages, the removal of Hamas from power and a political pathway to a Palestinian state.
He repeats Egypt’s pledge that it will not tolerate the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.
- IDF soldier visiting Spain for Madrid derby faces war crimes complaint after Gaza posts
A Palestinian refugee in Spain filed a legal complaint accusing an Israeli combat engineer of genocide and crimes against humanity, citing Instagram posts from Gaza; Lawyers admit arrest chances are slim but say message is keyA legal complaint was filed in Spain on Saturday against an active-duty IDF soldier visiting Madrid, accusing him of war crimes in Gaza after he shared social media posts showing his participation in demolitions during the war.According to Spanish media, the case was brought before Spain’s National Court by a Palestinian journalist from Gaza, who lives in the country as a refugee. He demanded the soldier’s arrest on charges of “crimes against people and property during an armed conflict, crimes against humanity, and genocide.”
The soldier, identified only as “S.,” is a combat engineering sergeant major who documented his trip to Spain online, including the hotel where he stayed. Hours before the complaint was filed, he posted that he planned to attend the Madrid derby between Real Madrid and AtlΓ©tico Madrid. The complaint is based on Instagram photos and videos from April showing him alongside bulldozers during house demolitions in Gaza City’s Al-Tuffah neighborhoodA team of lawyers representing the complainant acknowledged that the chances of an actual arrest are low. “The aim is to send a message: one cannot commit genocide during the week and then travel to Spain as a tourist to watch football,” they told Spanish daily PΓΊblico. They urged the court to act quickly, fearing the soldier might leave Spain soon. Following the filing, he did not attend the football match.Israeli D9 bulldozer in Gaza (Photo: Yoav Zitun) The complaint cites “serious violations” of Article 147 of the Geneva Convention, accusing the soldier of arbitrary destruction not justified by military necessity and intended to make life in Gaza impossible. It includes photos from his Instagram account, such as a January 2024 image showing him receiving a battalion award, and a May 2025 photo of him receiving a certificate of excellence bearing his full name. The complainant, identified as 42-year-old Al-Haj Arafat, said dozens of his family members were killed in Israeli airstrikes in 2023, including his sister and nieces, and that his family home was destroyed in operations involving the soldier’s unit. The complaint argues that combat engineering units play a key role in “massive demolitions through explosions and heavy machinery” in Gaza, leaving behind “scorched-earth” devastation. It asks police to arrest the soldier and place him on trial. Attorney Antonio Segura, one of the complainant’s lawyers, told PΓΊblico that the court should order the soldier’s detention “at least to take his testimony, so the facts can be used by the International Criminal Court.” link - At UN, Saudi FM slams Israel’s ‘brutal’ actions, calls for two-state solution
At UN, UAE warns against Israeli annexation, calls for Palestinian state ‘with no place for terrorists’
At UN, Oman calls for sanctions on Israel, establishment of Palestinian state
"Winner of an Emmy award made up for me the eye that was injured in Gaza": the Israelis who changed direction and succeeded big
Liav Turgeman was injured in Gaza – and then fulfilled the dream of his life ("I said to the paramedic: tell me how it looks, I need to be an actor"). Noa Takahashi felt a strange bird in Japan, immigrated to the country and became a network persona ("people were in shock"). Eitan Zimmerman was lost until he was discovered as a prodigy in the kitchen ("they said to me: you are a person that we would want as our chef"). The young ones who fulfilled the wish for the new year
"I remember that I flew backward and I thought that a sniper hit me, half of my face flew", recalled Liav Turgeman with sparkling eyes at the crazy moment when he understood what was the dream of his life. "A paramedic came to me with a frightened face. I grabbed his leg and I said: 'Tell me now how it looks – I need to be an actor'".
When Liav tells his story, it is hard to believe what surprising turn his life presented him following the decision that he made – and where it brought him. And he is not the only one: also Noa and Eitan are young ones whose lives changed from one edge to the other following a sudden change of direction.
Precisely now at Rosh Hashanah, at a time in which many of us wish for ourselves that "from now everything will be different" and that "this time something will change", it is worthwhile for all of us to receive inspiration from three young ones who took the opportunity for change with two hands.
Who understood what is their mission, and did not believe where this choice brought them.
"Dad asked: from where did it come?"
Liav Turgeman (29) grew up in Kiryat Gat to a warm family and he has four more brothers. "To live in Kiryat Gat in the periphery it is many laughs and many obstacles, so many interesting characters I met during life", he recalls and thanks for the childhood that he went through. All of his brothers were fighters in combat units in the army, and he had to stand in the standard.
He arrived at unit 504, was a fighter, commander and the entertainer of the team.
"The course was intensive, so every Friday evening we would do a dinner and at its end an impressions show. I felt that there I flying and that everyone wanted to see me. People from the base would want to remain Shabbat in order to see it". At that moment he understood that he caught the stage bug.
After the army he flew as far as possible, searched for himself in South America. Also there he discovered that he was drawn to perform. "I began to roll in the head the subject of acting, I said whatever will be will be", he recalls. At first, he tells, his parents did not accept it: "My dad said, 'From where did it come to you?', 'What is it related?', my friends, in contrast, always said that they saw me as an actor".
"I took a pistol and I went down to the Gaza envelope"
After he finished the military service, Liav traveled as far as possible. He flew to South America, cleared his head – and took the time to think about all that he went through. When he returned he was accepted to the prestigious school for acting Yoram Loewenstein.
The parents warned him that it was for "exceptional few", but he decided to chase after the dream.
And still something there did not align, whether because of the competitiveness in the studies, whether because he felt that the child from the periphery was swallowed among graduates of Thelma Yellin. He turned to a new way and arrived at Goodman, the school for acting in the Negev.
"I integrated into Be'er Sheva Theater in several productions", he recalls. "In year three I received lead roles in productions and it was very successful – and then the war broke out".
On October 7 all the mentality changed, the world turns over and I together with it", continues Liav. At that moment he left everything and turned to do the thing that he waited for all the service – to fight.
"I took a pistol and I went down to the envelope. I opened news, I saw Noa Argamani, who I knew. My friend from the army was murdered in Nova and the sister of my best friend was shot six times in the shelter in Be'eri", he tells.
"It is possible to say that it is to come down from the stage to the gunpowder dust, but from my perspective it is the highest thing that I had in my life. I stood before questions of army or lead role – and I chose army. I wanted that they would ask me 'what did you do in the war' and I will say: I fought until the end, the strongest that I can".
Throughout the war he skipped between the stage and the battlefield. "In every role that I played I found something that connects to what happens to me inside. I played in 'Hair' when I returned. There were there many texts about war and peace, about Berger who goes to war, comes to help a friend – and dies. It was hard for me with part of the messages, but in the end I managed to connect to it from my place as a fighter".
The injury that changes everything
This month – October 2024. Liav went down to the Netzarim route and about two months afterwards was injured, an injury that changes everything.
"We did attacks and raids in the area, there was much friction with terrorists. As part of my role I was a marksman. I covered our force from a balcony. At some point a D9 tractor that drove under the balcony in which I was on blew up from a big explosive device. The shrapnel hit the balcony, and from the blast, the weapon hit my eye.
The injury was serious?
"I have a tear in the iris and one of the pupils does not respond to light. When I arrived at the emergency room I did not know if I would see at all in that eye. I remember that I flew backward and I thought that a sniper hit me, that half of my face flew".
At that moment his greatest fear was that he would not be able to return to act. And precisely then he understood – this is the dream of his life. "A paramedic came to me with a frightened face. I grabbed his leg and I said, 'Tell me now how it looks – I need to be an actor'. It is the first thing that I thought about. I asked if the eye is in place and he said yes. The greatest nightmare of mine was to be injured in the face. This is my dream, my career".
"I understood that I must not miss the opportunity"
In contrast to Noa, who "exploded" on the net immediately, the turnaround in the life of Liav happened after a period in the hospital. He returned to routine slowly: "I did a substitution in Be'er Sheva Theater, and also some advertisement". Half a year after the injury he received a one-time opportunity – an audition for a new series of the great director Martin Scorsese. "He wanted to cast Israeli actors for roles of Christians who lived in the country. Scorsese is my beloved cinema creator, and I understood that I must not miss this opportunity. I had a feeling that this is a crazy opportunity that will not return".
"The set was crazy, the most professional that I saw in my life. Shots from cranes and in the middle of the sea. A wooden boat that looks as if they built it a thousand years ago".
After a sequence of auditions, in the shadow of long rehabilitation – came the closing of the circle. Liav received the role. "I will not forget it. I was in a party and I received a message from my agent that they want me. I grabbed people that I do not know on the dance floor and I began to tell them. I was happy like I was never happy in my life". It is about the new season of the successful series of Scorsese The Saints. For the previous season was cast the Israeli star Dar Zuzovsky. Every episode focuses on another hero in the Christian religion. "It is a docudrama, every episode stands in its time itself and focuses on one hero", explains Liav in enormous excitement. "I played in one of the episodes Saint Peter – the lead role in this episode".
How was it to move from the fighting in Gaza to such a luxurious set?
"The set was crazy, the most professional that I saw in my life. Shots from cranes and in the middle of the sea. A wooden boat that looks as if they built it a thousand years ago", he recalls.
"The makeup artist there is an Emmy winner and she made up for me the eye that was injured in Gaza".
To the question if he experienced antisemitism on the set he answers: "People abroad are very interested in what happens in the country and they come to listen. I saw in it an opportunity to tell our story in a way that listens also to claims from outside. I found myself talking much about the conflict that we live in – precisely from my angle as a fighter".
Today, alongside the big breakthrough, Liav also maintains an independent business: he creates marketing content and uses his experience in order to help business owners succeed in social networks. "I find in this work an enormous sense of satisfaction", he tells. "Also from helping people promote their business and to be part of their process and also from the creation that is inherent in it".
"I do not have matriculation and I am not ashamed of it"
Like with Liav, also with Eitan Zimmerman (26) not always did the personal desires rise in line with the expectations of the parents and the environment. "My mom always tells that since first grade I would return from school, crumple the homework and say: 'What is this garbage'. I was never a person of studies. I do not have matriculation and I am not ashamed of it. My dad accepted it fine, my mom less. They pressured me until they understood that it simply will not work".
At the time that everyone was going to youth movements and classes, Eitan would return home, listen to music and drum. "I love my freedom", he explains. "At first also I did not want to enlist. I felt that it would stop my life. But in the end I enlisted and I was yellow like crazy". In contrast to what one might think, Eitan, who became a chef, was not a cook in the army. He did not even know then that he loves to cook. In contrast to what is expected he was an outstanding soldier in basic training and in course. But at the moment that they did not allow him to go out to a commanders course in order "to keep him in the base", he took some steps back.
"When I understood that the army does not care about me I stopped investing", he recalls. "I was a month in prison and I remained a month messed up. In the end I returned to the same role and I fought to do reserves".
And how is all this connected to cooking?
"It is funny", he recalls with a shy smile. "Some time ago I recalled that in the army, towards the end of the service, we brought a camping stove. The NCOs who worked at nights would send me orders and I would prepare for them the food. I always thought that it came to me from nowhere, then I noticed that in different points during my life this love popped up".
From military prison to gourmet kitchens
After complicated military service, Eitan was discharged from the army – and left the parents' house. "In hindsight maybe it was a wrong decision". At that stage he still did not have direction, and the world of cooking at all did not seem on the horizon. "I began to work with my dad in preferred work, almost a year of my life I was a construction worker. Very physical jobs. At that time my dream was at all to be a musician, until I understood that it is impossible.
In those days he felt that he was losing direction – and in his view, he tells, this is another lesson in the school of life. "I found my dream only after life kicked me in the face", he laughs. "My mom and my ex said to me, 'Go do something, doing something will get you doing something'. At that time I enrolled to complete matriculations. I wanted to do a pointless degree because maybe there is no choice".
He enrolled to "a lame home cooking course", as he calls it. "They did for us a simulation of service, I said wow – I feel alive. What is this thing and where do you consume more of it", he jokes. "I began to work in the M25 of Eyal Shani. The services were very hard, but it was a very soft landing. It is not a simple job but I flew on it, I discovered that I am good".
Within a very short time Eitan became a kitchen manager. "Suddenly people enjoy the food that I make, enjoy working with me. I remember services that people would look and say, 'What fun to see you working'. A live kitchen is like a well-oiled machine. When it works well, it is like some dance".
The way of Eitan to success was inconceivable. From the fast kitchen of Eyal Shani he arrived at his new restaurant "Gila and Nancy". "I said to my boss, 'You made a big mistake, now I am going to work in a real restaurant'. Pans, ovens, lobsters, clams". After a period in the new restaurant in Neve Tzedek he received a tempting offer: to do a stage in the new one of Moshik Roth. "It was the real test", he told. "It is a place of greats. This is the top of the top. This is a Michelin kitchen".
Unexpectedly, after only two weeks, the chef came and sat him down for a talk. "He said that he wants to bring me in. I called my mom and I almost cried to her on the phone, it was the last stamp: I am in my place. Within so short a time I succeeded to be accepted to a kitchen on such a high level".
"Super-hard work"
And back to Eitan. After a period that he worked in as a cook, he received a call from a friend from the past. "A guy who knew me from the M25 called me, he was the chef of the restaurant Dvora of Eyal Shani. He said to me that he is looking for a sous chef, someone to be his right hand. At first I refused because I was with Moshik. In the end I went for it".
Eitan integrated there quickly and was discovered as a rising star in the kitchen. "After a month he offered me to be his sous chef. It means to do work schedule, to order fish and meat and to be responsible for cooks".
Suddenly he stops, like building suspense: "And then – a pot of boiling water spilled on me". For two weeks he was hospitalized, suffering from third-degree burns in his leg, but since then he returned and continued to work with all vigor.
"Suddenly they offered me to be the chef of the place. I said, 'Who am I and what am I?'
I said to my managers that I do not have experience at all and that I need that they will be with me in this thing. They said to me, 'You are a person that we would want to be our chef'. Suddenly I spoke with Eyal Shani about things that bothered me in the restaurant, and he listened to me. It is simply crazy".
This is a huge leap in very short time, no?
"It is not believable. It is important to say that it is super-hard work – that they should not fool you on television in programs. According to calculation that I did, only in the month of August I closed 400 hours of work. And also after the service, your brain works all the time, on new dishes, on what we will do tomorrow and on how it is possible to improve. There are days that I would go to sleep at three in the morning and wake up at six in the morning to work".
Sounds like a strict framework. How does it align with the kid in first grade who refused to prepare homework?
"I understood that it is not a matter of framework, it is a matter of the motivation to enter into it. When I bring out a dish to a person and I see that he enjoys the bite – from my perspective it is worth everything, it is a world and its fullness. Because it is a path that I paved".
According to Eitan, his insistence to choose his path alone is part of the secret of success. "It is good to be in the right place at the right time, but it is mainly to always give all of you. From the M25, that there it is only to sell pitas to people, until to prepare quenelles at Moshik Roth or to deal with fish and cuts worth hundreds of shekels. Food is not mathematics, they feel your heart
"I started the life as Japanese on full"
Noa Takahashi (18) was a little more difficult to reach. Not because she is a network star busy with an audience of hundreds of thousands of followers, but because she was available to talk only at lights-out hour. And perhaps this symbolizes more than anything the sharp transition that changed her life. From uniform Japanese outfit to uniforms; from a girl who feels as a foreign seed in Tokyo – to a leading influencer who works with giant brands and at the same time aspires to be an outstanding soldier.
"In Japan everyone same thing. If you are a little different, they look at you crooked." Noa Takahashi
"I was born and grew up in Tokyo, I started the life as Japanese on full," she tells with a chuckle. "My father is Japanese and my mother is Israeli. I grew up in Japanese frameworks all the life, but my mother was very Zionist. By chance ten minutes from my house there was a Chabad house in Tokyo, so it happened that I grew up also with Moshke and Shloime."
Noa tells that she was always a little different. "In Japan everyone same thing," she explains. "If you are a little different, they look at you crooked. Someone once even called me 'foreigner'. In the end I am very Israeli, in speech and in the way I express myself. I am very energetic and this fit less." She also tells about the disconnection she felt: "Because it is an island, they are very closed inside themselves. In history lesson for example we learned only about the history of Japan. In the book there was only one page about the Holocaust, I was in shock."
When she was 14 and entered junior high, the gaps between her and her Japanese girlfriends only went and grew. Then, in the shadow of the corona crisis, she and her family identified an opportunity for change. "Before that we did not succeed to move to Israel, because my father had a company in Japan and suddenly he understood that he can work from Zoom. He said 'let us move', and this is what I wanted all the life. Every summer we were coming to visit in Israel, and for me to be in the land it was a dream. Like in the movies.
Secret of success: Sushi and a glowing shirt
Noa, who had just arrived from Japan, did not really know the Israeli mentality. "For ten o’clock snack I brought seaweed with rice, onigiri salad and chopsticks," she remembers. "In Japan I was coming to school in uniform from head to toe. All had same shoes, same hair tie and same jacket. Without makeup and without phones. The education was very strict. In Israel? All with nail polish and makeup. The boys and the girls speak, people hug. In what world is there no distance?"
Noa, who arrived to the land with a few thousands of followers, fell in love with Israel. She did not know how much the Israelis on the network would fall in love with her back. "In my first video that exploded I was in a bright yellow shirt with sushi in hand. At my side was my friend in a black shirt and sandwich in hand. I looked abroad – and the Israelis got excited because 'she is ours'. I understood that I can 'exploit' this for my benefit. I began to bring shirts in bright colors. I spoke about Japan and all were astounded when they heard that I speak Hebrew."
As time passed, thus "Noa Take" became a brand. She began to engage in fashion and to work with big companies and among them Factory 54. "Every time I was speaking about Japan it was exploding," she remembers. "It is 180 degrees from us. In aesthetics, in cleanliness and in culture. It is something that the Israelis in life did not see."
As one who knows both sides, it is clear that the cultural differences are amusing: "There is a lot of Japanese food in the land, but it is not similar at all to food there. The freshness different, the way of raising the fish different, the way of cutting different – and also the dashi not similar especially. It is connected in the weather and the sea."
Now she is in the most Israeli place that there is. At the beginning of a significant military service. And also there, she tells with jumpy laughter, she identifies many differences. "For Israelis basic training is a shock, for me it was like returning to junior high in Japan. Two lines, to stand in H and to arrive on time. There is no such thing with the Israelis punishment, they do not have this discipline. With us it is like this from kindergarten. If they would send the Japanese to basic training 02 it would be nonsense for them, this is what is expected from kindergarten."link
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ICC - International Criminal Court in the Hague
IJC - International Court of Justice in the Hague
MDA - Magen David Adom - Israel Ambulance Corp
PA - Palestinian Authority - President Mahmud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen
PMO- Prime Minister's Office
UAV - Unmanned Aerial vehicle, Drone. Could be used for surveillance and reconnaissance, or be weaponized with missiles or contain explosives for 'suicide' explosion mission
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